“Dr.” Jon Basso of the Heart Attack Grill has sent the following email:

I was hoping that you could alert the EatFeat fans that the Food Channel is launching a whole new program called “Outrageous”. They’ll be covering different outrageous things in the world of food and have contracted with Page Productions to shoot it for them. The inaugural episode will be a half hour long feature about the Heart Attack Grill. They’re going to film it on Saturday March 28th in Chandler Arizona.
I was hoping that with your influence we could get a visit from some of the better competitors out there. It’d be great exposure for everyone and might shift the direction of the new Outrageous Series more toward the world of competitive eating. Any help would be much appreciated!

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The twitter for Kooky Kanuck (formerly Big Foot Lodge) reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt the Kookamonga (formerly Sasquatch) burger challenge tonight at 8 pm (9 pm eastern). After completing the burger, he will attempt the 18 scoop Avalanche sundae.

update The Kooky Canuck twitter reports that Pat Bertoletti finished his Kookamonga burger in 7 minutes and 15 seconds, breaking Joey Chestnut’s previous record by 21 seconds.

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The200MileRun.com announces a non-stop run by Christopher Huang which will begin in Houston on Thursday, March 19 and end in Austin on Saturday. After completing the run, an attempt will be made to break the breakfast taco record at Juan in a Million, which is currently 7 by the “Hong Kong Hero”. The goal of the run is to raise money for Space12, a community center in East Austin.

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Episode slideshow

• The Roast Grill – challenge 17 hot dogs
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  NewsObserver.com article about the filiming
  Art & Literature blog entry about the Roast Grill
• The Pit meal: pork BBQ
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  A Food Network program was filmed last week according to the restaurant’s twitter
• Time Out Chicken – meal: shredded chicken sandwiches
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The twitter for KookyCanuck reports that Pat Bertoletti will attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of 7:36 for the Kookamunga Challenge on March 20.

The Memphis restaurant is also developing a 12 pound burger and a burger with pizzas as buns.

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The website for Mel’s Country Cafe in Tomball, Texas (suburban Houston) has a web page with pictures of several finishers of the Mega Mel burger and their times. Lindsay has the fastest time of 19 minutes on that page.

The page about the restaurant on localism reports that the all time record is 9 minutes and apicture of the finishers list reveals that Eric Attayi is the record holder.

In a youtube comment, the son of the restaurant’s owner reports that Lindsay is the new female record holder and she came back a month later and finished another Mega Mel in 21 minutes.

FullFiguredFella is organizing a Mega Mel eating contest.

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Here are lists of eating challenges for metro areas for cities in the midwest United States:

Chicago | Cincinnati | Cleveland | Columbus | Detroit | Indianapolis | Kansas City | Milwaukee | Minneapolis | St. Louis | West Michigan

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• Jack N Grill challenge meal – 7 pound breakfast burrito
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  Denver Post report on the filming (contains spoilers)
  Denver Metromix gallery of three women attempting to finish the burrito
  Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane’s blog entry about his challenge attempt

• Buckhorn Exchange meal – 64 ounce steak
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  The largest steak served weighs 4 pounds and costs $178
  BiggestMenu page about the steak

• The Cherry Cricket meal – burgers with a possible 21 toppings
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list of Denver area eating challenges in the eatfeats database

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Here are lists of eating challenges for metro areas for cities in the western United States:

Denver | Las Vegas | Los Angeles | Phoenix | Portland | Sacramento | San Diego | San Francisco | San Jose | Seattle

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(Via geekologie) EatLiver has instructions on how to construct a giant bacon burger with a five pound patty which uses frozen pizzas as buns.

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The New York Times local news blog has an entry about the burger challenge offered by the Ottomanelli Brothers New York Grill, which is located near Central Park. If a 24 ounce burger, fries and a 20 ounce soda are consumed in under 20 minutes, the meal is free. The listed price is $12.95, which seems low. 71 year old former Knick Cal Ramsey was one diners to attempt the challenge.

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A twitter update reports Joey Chestnut finished a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria in 3 minutes and 10 seconds on tonight’s episode of Man vs. Food

updateFrom “I” comment – Skinnyboy has uploaded Joey Chestnut’s segment to youtube. Here are some captures from it:

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Episode slideshow | picture of Joey Chestnut on TravelChannel.com

• Smoke Eaters (formerly University Chicken) 911 hot wing challenge
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  Cooking for Engineers blog entry about a 911 Challenge attempt
  SJSU student newspaper article about restaurant

• Iguana’s Tacqueria meal: 5 pound Burritozilla
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  SJSU student paper article about a 2004 Burritozilla contest
  SJSU student paper profile of Joey Chestnut mentioning his victory in the 2004 contest
  Pat Bertoletti’s records page reports he has the best Burritozilla time

• Henry’s Hi Life
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(From “I”/dogsarefunyes) A picture of Joey Chestnut, apparently eating a Burritozilla from Iguana’s Taqueria, is on the home page of Man vs. Food. Next week’s episode will feature restaurants from San Jose.

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